Accomplishments

Faculty Accomplishments: College of Arts & Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences is excited to share recent accomplishments from our faculty and staff members.

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Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.


All Recent Accomplishments

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, and John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English were interviewed by the internet business magazine, Hypergrid Business. They were quoted in the article, “Profs Bring Hamlet into AR,” where they spoke about their project to bring Hamlet into the classroom as an Augmented Reality game. The article was published on October 31, 2019.

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, delivered a Keynote Lecture and Workshop at the 'Cripping' Graphic Medicine: Drawing Out the Public Sphere, symposium at Syracuse University, in Syracuse, N.Y. Her lecture, “'Cripping' Graphic Medicine: Psychiatric Disability, 'Crip' Culture, and the Health Humanities,” was presented on October 29, 2019, and her workshop, “Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,” was presented on October 30, 2019, at the Symposium.

Kate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, was an invited speaker at the Artist Talk Series: Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in Red Hook, Brooklyn on October 26, 2019. O’Hara’s talk, "Capturing Lived Experience," explained her use of arts-based methods in her social science research.

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, presented her paper, “Mental Health America: A Lost History of Patient Self-Advocacy and Professional Collaboration in Psychiatric Care,” at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities annual conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 25, 2019.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented “Plastic Pedagogy: Modernism After Warhol” as part of the Plastic Modernisms roundtable at the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Conference in Toronto, Canada on October 1, 2019. This presentation also addressed New York Tech students' digital projects in Golden's foundations of research writing course, “Writing New York.” She also spoke at the MSA business lunch as a co-organizer of the 2020 conference to be held in Brooklyn, New York.

Amanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, published an essay, “Digital Design with William Morris,” in Teaching William Morris, edited by Jason Martinek and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, on October 16, 2019.

Sophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published an article, “Nonabelian probes in holography,” on October 24, 2019 in the Journal of High Energy Physics with Andy Royston, professor of Physics from Penn State University.

Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of English and associate dean of curriculum and student engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences, had her review of The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care published in peer-reviewed journal, Victorian Studies, on October 9, 2019.

Anthony DiMatteo, Ph.D., professor of English, had his book of poetry, Fishing for Family, published by Kelsay Books on October 2, 2019. The poems explore the interwoven aspects of childhood and old age.

Kate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, was selected as one of the artists in the juried show, Grand Installations — Spatial Relations, at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on September 21, 2019. O’Hara’s mixed-media installation, “Opening the Canopy: Relationship with the Land” draws from her background in social science. The installation used 2-D and 3-D representations of her subject’s situatedness: context within place and space. All this, with the aim of informing and aiding the viewer to find a connection that will foster inclusive action and break the cycle of “othering.” The installation represents O’Hara's scholarship that focuses on the use of mixed media, photography in particular, as research methods.